Metallic covering for roofs, walls, and buildings.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907. S. TAYLOR.

WALLS, AND BUILDINGS. 1w FILED JAN. 2?, 190a.

APPLIOATIO Inventor METALLIC COVERING FOR RGOPS PATENT OFFICE.

. ITNITED STATES SAMUEL TAYLOR, F BIRMI GHAM, ENGLAND.

METALLIC COVERING FOR HOOPS, WALLS, AND BUILDINGS- Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, SAMUEL TAYLOR, a sub- 'ect of the King of Great Britain, residin at l\los. 145,146, and 147 Lionel street, ir mingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Coverings for Roofs, Walls, and Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

The said invention relates to that type oh metal-covered roofs, walls, and buildings in which theopposed edges of stepped or plain metallic sheets are separated a short distance apart and are connected by guttered strips or caps which are secured to the sheets or to the sheets and roof work or framing of the building by screw ins of bolts.

According to the sai invention I so fashion the longitudinal edges of the sheets and guttered strips or caps that channels are formed between them for carrying away water of condensation or other water, so as thereby to more effectually prevent water gaining access to the under side of the roofing-sheets than with the arrangement of parts heretofore used.

For su porting and fixing the metallic sheets and connecting stri s or caps to the roof work or framin t lxing their ed es together where no ra i t the joints) semicylindrical or saddle-like blocks of wood or of other hard material are used at the'joints, the fixing screws or bolts passing through holes in the said blocks, the edges of the caps fitting closely or saddlewise on the senncylindrical bloc s.

Figure 1 of the accompanyingdrawingrepresents in plan a portion of a metal-covered roof containing the improvements constituting my invention, and Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same. -Fig. 3 represents in section the method of connecting the unsupported edges of the metallic sheets between the purlins or framing; Fig. 4 represents in plan, and Fig. 5- in cross-section, one of the semicylindrical or saddle-like blocks emplo. edin. supporting and joining the sheets an caps together.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawm in are the metallic ste ped (or plain) metal sheets the adjacent edges of which are separated a short distance apart to permit of the passage between them of the fixingscrews b b. c is the guttered fixin .cap or strip engaging with or fitting over t e adjaare are situated un erv forced downward in the cent 0 en or separated edges of the sheets a a. t will be seen'by an examination of Fig. 2 that the sheets and caps are so fashioned as to form between them longitudinal channels 0 e for carrying away water which may have found its way between the bearing parts of'the said sheets and caps and preventing the same by capillary attraction or otherwise from gaining access to the under sides of the said sheet f is one of the solid semicylindrical or sad: die-like blocks, preferably of hardwood, between which and the strips or caps c the edges of the sheetsa are gripped where they are to be connected by the screw ins b (or bolts) to the woodwork or roo -framing. The. fiat bottoms of the semicylindrical blocks f rest on the roof work or framing g, and the central heading fits closely or saddle-- wise the semicylindrical blocks each block beingmade for the passage of the fixing-screw b (or bolt) into the roof work or framing. The heads of the screws or bolts 5 seat themselves on washers d. By the use of the semicylindrical blocks f the metallic sheets and fixing-caps are very secure] fixed to the roof workor framing, and t e extreme edges ofthe sheets are maintained in their position and prevented from being fixing of the'sheets with the screws or bolts.

Where the edges of the metallic sheets a and caps c are secured together between the purlins or rafters,fthe semicylindrical blocks;

f are secured in place within the 'oint part of a the sheets and safe by fixing-b0 ts and nuts in z b, as is illustrate ig. 3. A further advantage attending the use of the solid semicylindrical blocks is that rattling of the contacting parts of t e sheets and caps can be ve efiiciently revented. p

aving now escribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A 1. Inmetal roofs or metal-covered roofs, walls and buildings the presented edges of the metallic sheets of which are separated a short distance apart and have each a small convex corrugation passing by a concave channel or corrugation into a larger convex uadrant-like corrugation at the edge of the 5 eat, the quadrant-like corrugation of one shaped corrugation of e adjacent sheet a semicircular or nearly semicircular convex corrugation the corrugations of the said sheet forming with the presented quadrantsheets being covered by a simil'arly-corru-- gated covering-strip or cap which covers the opening between the sheets making the small convex and concave corrugations of the caps or strips of such a height that waterconduits are formed between the corrugations of the sheets and the corrugations of the caps or covering-strips which carry away water of condensation or other water and prevent water gaining, by capillary attraction or otherwise, access to the under sides of the sheets.

2 Metallic roofing com rising the combination with a pair of meta lic sheets the resented edges of which are separated a s ort distance apart and have each a small convex corrugation passing by a concave channel or corrugation into a larger convex quadrantlike corrugation at the edge of the'sheet, the quadrants ike corrugation of one sheet form- SAMUEL TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

RICHARD SKERRETT, ARTHUR JOHN POWELL. 

